PUBLIC MARKS with tags internet & users

The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces reports that explore the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the internet through collection of data and analysis of real-world developments as they affect the virtual world.

based on the question: What do you need to find and what do you already know?

links to knowledge sharing or knowledge management site; larger site is most comprehensive listing of web2.0 sites I have seen, organized into many categories; blogger is from Netherlands

31 articles on instructional web technology

a good overview of various aspects of Web2.0

kept updated, an important factor in Interent software hints; I use these often

English site overview page of a large German site for media, art, and the Internet

extended visual, biographical, and textual database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists

by Raqs Media Collective / September 2001; keywords not usually used by folks in literature and film, yet they will want to enter the fora where these ideas have a formative influence

my tagcloud from stumbleupon; just discovered I could import my delicious tags and comments there. Stumbleupon is my newest obsessively visited site.

google tool for helping a person create their own web page and store it free online; very simple interface

"ShopWiki actively crawls more than 180,000 online stores to ensure you’ll find the products you want at the best prices." For a class looking at web2.0 apps, it's the kind of thing students would enjoy playing with.

I have not tried it yet but am interested in the arrival of word processing, video editing, and photo editing tools to the web. This one has an intuitive interface.

a web2.0 radio listening site; you can see others' tastes and perhaps pick up some tips from them; like Pandora, it learns your tastes

10/06 report from one of the major sources of information on Internet use in the United States

a librarian teaches you about the dark web; originally written 2001, updated Oct. 2006

one page of tips to remind you of search protocols on Google

just what it says; its lists and tip sheets are regularly updated

useful annotations, garnering many comments and additions

tell your favorite song, hear more like it; site learns your tastes

06, overview, rationale, and links to academic blogs

collection of sites with interest in cyberculture, many from the social sciences

the various programs are on many topics of media and mass communications; available in audio, video, or print format; good overview of contemporary media issues by academics and practitioners

how to refine a topic and its searches; updated for web 2.0 and specialty searching; good for anyone starting to do Internet research on a topic and will take you to some previously unused search tools